Amoeblog > Tag > casablancahttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/tags/casablanca/page1.html
Amoeblog posts marked with casablanca.(Où l'on considère les chanteurs français.)<div style="text-align: center;">
<img alt="french poster" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Job/vintagechanson.jpg" /></div>
<div style="text-align: justify;">
<br />
When you work at <strong>Amoeba Music</strong> there&rsquo;s certain questions you answer over and over again:</div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
&ldquo;Where&rsquo;s the restroom?&rdquo;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
&ldquo;Why&rsquo;s <em>this one</em> this price and <em>this one</em> this price?&rdquo;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
&ldquo;Where can I find <strong>Edith Piaf</strong>?&rdquo;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
That last question is occasionally (to my endless amusement) pronounced as, &ldquo;Where can I find Edith <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilaf"><em>Pilaf</em></a>?&rdquo; to which I always want (but never) answer:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
&ldquo;We file her in-between <strong>Condoleezza Rice</strong> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_d_tll47GM"><strong>Tim Curry</strong></a>. They all go great together.&rdquo;</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
My internalized snarkiness aside, I&rsquo;m all for Edith Piaf. Who could hate <em>La Môme Piaf</em> (her French nickname, literally translated as <em>&ldquo;That short woman in the black dress with the amazing voice but tragic make-up which someone should seriously having a talking-to-her about&rdquo;</em>)?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
But I think too many people stop with Piaf and don&rsquo;t investigate the <strong><em>chanson française</em></strong> of her peers, which is a shame because there&rsquo;s so much to love. Below I offer some performers I think are <em>à l&#39;opposé de terrible</em>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
<img alt="border" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Job/floral-designs-5-1.jpg" style="width: 550px; height: 136px;" /></p><div style="clear: both;"><a style="font-size:13px;" href="/blog/2011/03/another-witty-and-unnecessary-blog/-o-l-on-consid-re-les-chanteurs-fran-ais-.html">Continue reading...</a></div>http://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2011/03/another-witty-and-unnecessary-blog/-o-l-on-consid-re-les-chanteurs-fran-ais-.html
Tue, 22 Mar 2011 23:32:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2011/03/another-witty-and-unnecessary-blog/-o-l-on-consid-re-les-chanteurs-fran-ais-.htmlaugmenting the blather ...<p>Perhaps the <strong>holiday season</strong> has already taken something of a toll on my psyche, (though I do little shopping and I&rsquo;m more or less done), I&rsquo;m feeling a tad bit overwhelmed these last few days.&nbsp;I think it&rsquo;s mostly due to the fact that my trusted computer is in the shop for some repairs, as is my guitar amp &hellip; and I think every electronic gadget I own. And on top of that, someone hacked into my own Myspace account. And today a plumber is suppose to show up and take care of a few problems we have here at the old homestead, but how often do plumbers actually show up on the day scheduled, and on time? I should perhaps lighten the mood, quit the <strong>blather</strong> - or just step boldly forth and augment the blather, and mention that <img align="left" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/galactic.bmp" style="border: 12px solid white;" alt="" />I&rsquo;m really fond of old school fear inducing literature on subjects like culture shock and modern paranoia, media paranoia, (&quot;<em>the medium is the message</em>&quot;) &hellip; (my personal favorite faux-cultural-analytical phrase: &ldquo;<em>media derived fantasies</em>&rdquo;), conspiratorial governments, and discourses on the mechanization of middle class culture on their efforts to mute class &hellip; basically anything on the <strong>spooky-spooky future</strong>. I&rsquo;ll just quote some <strong>Alvin Toffler</strong> here and put up a pretty picture of a <strong>galactic spiral</strong>. I&rsquo;ll feel better. Hey, I do feel better!</p>
<p>&quot;<em>Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in <strong>future shock</strong></em>.&quot;</p>
<p>In short the definition of future shock is a personal sensitivity to &quot;<em>too much change in too short a period of time</em>&quot;. I think Toffler is speaking to me directly, and that&rsquo;s not a good sign!</p>
<p>I recently came across one of Toffler&rsquo;s old books in a thrift store, <em>The Third Wave</em>. I glanced through it, and it&rsquo;s not as richly paranoid as I would like it to be- I need more suspicion. If I was on my own computer, I could just click over to some eerie bookmarked pages, and just settle in with a nice cup of Earl Grey tea. There is a crumb of comfort there, don&rsquo;t know why, but on some of these sites I find just enou<img align="left" src="http://www.amoeba.com/admin/uploads/blog/Futureshock.bmp" style="border: 12px solid white;" alt="" />gh soothing reassurance that whatever the hell is going on, seems to keep right on going on. It&rsquo;s a disquieting assurance, yes, but it&rsquo;s consistent, besides you know in this day and age you grab whatever peace you can find, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now ... here's looking at you kid.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><div style="clear: both;"><a style="font-size:13px;" href="/blog/2007/11/the-thing-of-a-thing-of-a-thing-/augmenting-the-blather-.html">Continue reading...</a></div>http://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2007/11/the-thing-of-a-thing-of-a-thing-/augmenting-the-blather-.html
Thu, 29 Nov 2007 19:06:00 GMThttp://www.amoeba.com/rss-link/blog/2007/11/the-thing-of-a-thing-of-a-thing-/augmenting-the-blather-.html